Pageant will take place on January 26th at the Sheraton San Gabriel.(#6 Rubyanne Ye recently competed at the 2018 Miss Chinese (New York)pageant where she finished in the Top 5.)The winner will represent L.A. at the 2020 Miss Chinese International Pageant.(Images courtesy of Miss L.A. Chinatown / L.A. Chinese Chamber of Commerce)

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Kathy Wong

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Ashley Thompson

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Barbara Wong

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Sela Wang

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Isabell Liu

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Rubyanne Ye

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Kellie Chin

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Brianna Ying

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Karen Ha

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Miss Chinese Toronto Pageant 2018 Results

Finals took place on Friday, December 14th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.Contestant #5 楊昳譞 Summer Yangwalked away victorious and will representToronto at the upcoming Miss Chinese International pageant.Summer is 25 years old and stands 5'8" tall.The 1st Runner-up #6, who seemed to be the crowd favorite stands at 5'11" tall, perhaps the tallest in Miss Chinese Toronto history.On a sidenote, they were encouraging people to vote for the title of"Miss Eloquence" after the Q&A segment. Results will be posted on Dec. 19.

Finals took place on Thursday, December 6th at the Vancouver Convention Centre.In the end, Taiwanese contestant Alice Lincame away with the crown and the right to representVancouver at the upcoming Miss Chinese International pageant.Alice is 26 years old and stands 5'3.5" tall.

Miss Miss Australia Chinese 2018 Grand Final took place
on Friday, October 12th at The Palms at Crown Melbourne.
The Top 2 finishers Finola & Sylvia will go on to Miss Chinese International 2019.
Special guest performer was singer Linda WONG Hing Ping.

25 year-old Personal Trainer & Model Waikin Kwan (關偉健) has been selected
as the new Mister International Hong Kong 2018. Waikin stands 1.84m talland will represent Hong Kong at the next Mister International contest.Information courtesy of Mister International Hong Kong

Miss International Hong Kong 2018 selected

24 year-old Model Carmaney Wong (黃嘉雯) has been selected
as the new Miss International Hong Kong 2018. Carmaney stands 5'7" talland will represent Hong Kong at Miss International 2018 on November 9in Tokyo, Japan.Information courtesy of Miss International Hong Kong

Miss Grand Macau 2018 selected

22 year-old Professional Dancer & Model Debora Lopes de Oliveira (羅珮兒) has been selected
as the new Miss Grand Macau 2018. Debora stands 1.68m talland will represent Macau at Miss Grand International to be held on October 25th in Myanmar.Information courtesy of Miss Grand Macau

Miss International Macau 2018 selected

24 year-old Property Leasing Consultant, Model & Event Emcee
Cherry Chin (錢令儀) has been selected as the new Miss International Macau 2018. Cherry stands 5'8.5" tall and will represent Macau at Miss International to be held on November 9th in Tokyo.Information courtesy of Macau Pageant Alliance

Miss Astro Chinese International 2018 was crowned on September 23rd.
The theme for this year was "Girl Power". In the end contestant #5
Jovane Phang was the big winner, also sweeping all the subsidiary
awards. Jovane is 22, stands 1.69m tall and will represent Malaysia
(as Miss Kuala Lumpur) at Miss Chinese International 2019 in Hong Kong.

Miss Chinese 2018 was crowned on August 26th at 1AM at the Mohegan Sun.23 year-old Gina Wu was crowned Miss Chinese 2018.Gina is 5'6" tall and was born and raised in Guangdong, China.She will represent New York at the 2019 Miss Chinese International pageant, hoping to make it a three-peat for New York.Special performance was by former Miss Hong Kong Top 4 Mandy Wong.

The new Mr. & Miss Chinatown Phillpines were crowned on Sunday September 2nd at the Mall of Asia Arena.
Miss Chinatown Philippines Marie Que is 23 and stands 5'4" tall and will represent Phillipines at the 2019 Miss Chinese International Pageant in Hong Kong.

Miss Friendship was named during a swimsuit presentation:she is #8 Claudia Chan.

The contestants each performed a talent in hopes of clinching the Audience Popularity Award.In the end a top 3 was selected: #5 Krystl Kung, #6 Olivia To and #15 Tania Chan.There was a tie for first place between #5 Krystl who performed asamba dance and #15 Tania who performed a ribbon (rhythmic gymnastics) routine.

The pageant will be held on August 26th.This year there are 20 contestants and will go through several eliminations during pageant night.The field will narrowd down to 12, then 5, then the Top 3 which the audienceand viewers will determine the placement through voting on the bigbigfun App.

Miss Chinatown Houston was crowned on Saturday July 21st at the Royal Sonesta Hotel. In the end contestant #6 Karen Yen took top honors and will be Houston's representative at the 2019 Miss Chinatown USA pageant.Karen is 23 years old and performed a cello piece during the talent segment.Image courtesy of Miss Chinatown Houston Facebook

Miss Dragon 2018 crowned

Miss Dragon (Tahiti) was crowned on Saturday June 2nd in Papeete. This is
the second try for Morgane who also competed a couple years ago.Morgane will represent Tahiti at the 2019 Miss Chinese International Pageant.1st Princess went to Cindy Lau and 2nd Princess is Herenui Yu.Image courtesy of Tahiti Nui Télévision

MISS CHINATOWN USA 2018 RESULTSJasmine Lee of San Francisco walks away with the title and becomesthe 2nd of her family to win the Miss Chinatown USA title.Her older sister Crystal Lee was Miss Chinatown USA 2010(and also 1st Runner-up at Miss America).

There is the old Chinese addage "Good Things Comes In Pairs/Doubles".Not only are the Lee sisters winners of Miss Chinatown USA, Janet Chen who placed as 2nd Princess (who is Miss Chinatown Houston 2017)is the younger sister of Connie Chen (Miss Chinatown Houston 2007) and 4th Princess of Miss Chinatown USA 2008.

The Pageant took place on February 22nd at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.This year's theme is "A New Generation of Beauty".Several things were new this year:New venue, new production team and new crowns.It was emceed by veteran host Julia Tung and was joinedthis year by Betty Hsu and Jeff Locker.Special guests included former Miss Universe Riyo Mori who helpedwith the crowning of Miss Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Jasmine will representSan Francisco at the 2019 Miss Chinese International pageant.Tomorrow night is the Coronation Ballwhere Miss Congeniality will be awarded.

You can watch a video of the crowning here:(Much thanks to Jenn Chung's live Facebook video)

Miss San Francisco Elisa Santos wins the first award of the pageant - "Live Audience Most Liked Performance Award" (which is essentially Miss Talent).She won by performing a pole dance, the same talent she performedat Miss Chinatown USA in which she also won Miss Talent.The 15 contestants’ performances ranged from dancing to singingto playing musical instruments. Rounding out the Top 3 wereMiss Melbourne Sabrina Shi who performed an ethnic danceand Miss Tahiti Linda Chung who performed a belly dance.Miss Toronto did not attend the event.

AWARD PRESENTATION:

THE TOP 3 TALENT PERFORMANCES:

Miss San Francisco Elisa Santos - pole dance

Miss Melbourne Sabrina Shi - ethnic dance

Miss Tahiti Linda Chung - belly dance

(Videos by Michael Lam on youtube)

On a side note, a couple days ago, the contestants competed in a speed makeup challengesponsored by Colourmix Makeup. The winner of that challenge wasMiss Foshan Arrixy Li. The other 3 that made it to the final round wereMiss Los Angeles Angela Liu, Miss New York Rose Li and Miss Sydney Summer Meng.Arrixy took home a deluxe prize package from Colourmix containing many makeup products.

Miss Hong Kong is good friends with Miss Hawaii, who happens
to be the Miss Congeniality winner at Miss Hawaii Chinese.
She has a good chance at winning the Miss Friendship award this year.
On a sidenote: the last time Hawaii competed at Miss Chinese International
in 2002, Marjorie Wu took home the Miss Friendship award.

The 16 contestants for Miss Chinese International 2018 met the media
for the first time at a press conference in Tsim Sha Tsui.
Early media favorites include New York's Rose Li who was dubbed
Eliza Sam lookalike, and Vancouver's Cheryl Ng who is dubbedLinda Chung lookalike. Laos makes it's debut this year (probably followingit's success at international pageants last year). Hawaii and Tahitireturns to the pageant after several years. Auckland and Bangkok is not representedthis year. Miss Vancouver was lucky enough to be drawn for the practice crowning.